This is a follow up to the June 3, 2021 article "FBI Agents Steal Rare Gold Coins In Brazen Defiance Of Judge's Search Warrant." On June 22, 2021, federal judge, R. Gary Klausner, ruled against the corrupt FBI, by issuing a restraining order prohibiting the lawless law enforcement agency from stealing the property of others that was located in U.S. Private Vaults in Beverly Hills.

In the first place, the FBI brazenly and criminally violated a search warrant, granting them permission to search the property, but not to seize the contents of the safety deposit boxes. The judge's warrant stated it "does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safe-deposit boxes" and it "authorize[s] the seizure of the nests of the boxes themselves, not their contents."

However, the FBI did so anyway. Then the FBI claimed the $86,000,000 in gold, jewelry and cash all belonged to criminals. This was not true. The outlandish claim has gotten the FBI sued by dozens of people, forcing the agency to admit not all of the safety deposit boxes contained the proceeds of criminal activity. The agency has yet to arrest anyone in the case.

People have come forward proving their property in the safety deposit boxes was legitimately owned and not from the proceeds of crime. One couple who were featured on "Inside Edition" revealed the jewelry in their safety deposit box were heirlooms passed down in a will (from the woman's grandmother).

Another victim of the FBI's misconduct is a doctor, who has sued them over the illegal confiscation of her gold coins she collected over the course of 20-years. A doctor can easily accumulate $75,000 in gold coins in that span of time, as they earn high salaries.

In another lawsuit filed against the FBI for stealing from the safety deposit boxes, one man proved he had, "Obtained the money in two legal settlements, one for a car accident injury and the other for chronic housing code violations at his apartment building."

The case has garnered a significant amount of bad publicity for the FBI. The case was initially covered on one website. Then it picked up speed and ended up in the mainstream press, via newspapers. Then it ended up on the television news program "Inside Edition" as mentioned above.

The FBI have not provided any proof of their claims in stating all the safety deposit box owners are criminals. The Los Angeles Times reported, "The agency, however, has not publicly disclosed evidence to support the allegation."

The newspaper also reported, "Citing the 5th Amendment’s protection against deprivation of property without due process, Klausner faulted the government for failing to specify in its forfeiture notice the reasons for taking the cash and valuables of four box holders who filed one of a dozen lawsuits after the March raid on U.S. Private Vaults. 'This notice, put bluntly, provides no factual basis for the seizure of Plaintiffs’ property whatsoever,' Klausner wrote."

A lawyer in the case, Robert Frommer, who represents four safety deposit box holders stated, "Government officials can’t permanently take your property without first saying what you’ve done wrong. This ruling should lead the FBI to abandon its efforts to steal over $85 million through civil forfeiture.”

But that's just it. The FBI are thieves. They're stealing from people left, right and center, behaving like a law unto themselves. It's a really bad look. The FBI's behavior is shameful and it has brought the U.S. government into disrepute in America and the world, as people in public forums are openly calling them corrupt. As their behavior has been left unchecked, the FBI just keeps getting worse.

The safety deposit boxes case is more proof that the FBI are thieves and have absolutely no respect for the law (FBI Agent Arrested For Stealing $800,000 From A Woman And Using It To Buy A House, Mercedes And Take Lavish Trips and Former FBI Directors Robert Mueller And James Comey Criminally Defrauded Florida Submarine Company Out Of Billions Of Dollars In Copyrights And Patents To Benefit Former Employer Lockheed Martin Then Stonewalled Congress Regarding It and The FBI Is Stonewalling Congress On Releasing FBI File In Madonna Human Rights Abuse Case (Congressional Documents)).

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Judge blocks FBI from keeping cash, gold and silver seized in Beverly Hills raid

June 23, 2021 7:41 PM PT - A federal judge has blocked the FBI from confiscating some of the valuables it seized from safe deposit boxes at a Beverly Hills business, saying the government appeared to be violating the owners’ rights.

The temporary restraining order issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner marked a setback for the FBI in its attempt to keep as much as $86 million in cash and millions of dollars more in jewelry, gold and other valuables that agents took from 369 safe deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store on Olympic Boulevard.

The FBI claims the owners of the cash and valuables were engaged in criminal activity that justifies the confiscation of their property. The agency, however, has not publicly disclosed evidence to support the allegation...

In late March, federal agents executed search and seizure warrants at U.S. Private Vaults, a company that was indicted on charges of conspiring to sell drugs, launder money and carry out cash transactions meant to dodge detection. The company has said nothing publicly about the charges but has challenged in court the government’s attempted confiscation of its customers’ belongings.

The warrants, approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim, gave the FBI permission to seize the company’s business equipment, including the safe deposit boxes themselves. But Kim explicitly barred the FBI from conducting a criminal search of the boxes’ contents...

https://www.latimes.com